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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
List of Recommended Books on Screenwriting and Productions and Online Resources
Celtx's New Web Look and Smartphone Apps
Future Development of Celtx

The editor toolbar


The editor toolbar appears on the top of the main script window for each type of project except Storyboard. We came across it before in Chapter 1, but let's take a quick run through again because you'll use it a lot. We'll go across from left to right, as shown in the following screenshot:

The tools in the editor toolbar are explained as follows:

  • The first item on the editor bar is the drop-down script element menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

    These elements vary some, depending on the type of project. A Film project has different elements than a Comic Book. No other screenwriting software has the wide range of possible projects that we can script in Celtx. To insert a Scene Heading or a Character and Dialog, place the I-beam cursor in the script and just click on the element desired on the dropdown menu. There are also shortcuts as we discuss from time to time in this book.

  • The next two items, the two curved arrows, are Undo and Redo respectively.

  • The b, i, and u...